Improvement in farm-fencej



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE;

sAMUEL sTANBEo, or PLYMOUTH, MICHIGAN.

IMPROVEMENT IN FARM-Fences..

Speetication forming pari of Letters Patent No. 146,368, dated January 13, 1874; application filed October 15, 1873.

T0 all whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, SAMUEL STANBRO, of Plymouth, in the county of Wayne and State of Michigan, have invented an Improvement in Rail Fences, of which the following is a speciiication:

The nature of this invention relates to an improved method of securing or binding the posts in the angles of the intersections of zigzag rail fences, and has for its object to furnish a simple, inexpensive, but etective device for that purpose, consisting of a binding wire or link, secured at each end to a wedge, to be driven between the rails about mid-height of the fence, the wire passing around the posts, and in such a manner as to draw them toward each other into the angles of intersections, thereby enabling the fence to resist any strains to which it may be subjected.

Figure l is a perspective view, showing the intersection of two panels of fence. Fig. 2 is a detached perspective view of the binding-m wire, with the wedges attached thereto.

In the drawing, A represents the split rails of any ordinary zigzag or worm fence, laid a1- ternately upon each other at the angular intersections of the panels, to any desired number or height. B B are two posts, one being driven into the ground at each intersection. Heret-ofore it has been customary to secure these posts from spreading by tying them together with wire, which, after a time, stretches or works loose from the knot at the joined ends, thereby allowing the fence to be easily blown over by the wind, or pushed down by' live stock,

to prevent which I employ a short bindingwire, C, having secured to each end a wooden wedge, D. The ends of said wire are brought around the sides of the posts B B, about midy are easily driven back, and the posts tightened up again.

The use of these wedgesincreases the height of the fence about the thickness of one rail, while it is also stronger and cheaper than the fences secured in the ordinary way. With my way of securing the posts B B, it is not necessary to drive them into the ground, but

merely to rest them on it. What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The rails A A and posts B B, arranged as described, and secured together by the wire C and wedges D, as set forth.

SAMUEL STANBRO.

Witnesses H. F. EBEETs, H. S. SPRAGUE.- 

